An Ohio high school student training to be an EMT was charged with a felony and sent to jail for 13 days because police found a pocketknife during an unauthorized search of his car.

Jordan Wiser, an 18-year-old student at Ashtabula County Technical and Career Campus in Jefferson, Ohio, is an EMT trainee with a passion for self-defense and public service. He aspires to be a firefighter, and is a certified emergency vehicle operator. Wiser is comfortable with weapons, and posts Youtube videos of himself talking about law enforcement, self-defense and video games.

Apparently, school administrators caught wind of the videos, which led them to believe that Wiser was in possession of weapons, according to The Huffington Post.

I didnt think anything of the Airsoft guns, said Wiser in a statement. Our school is a technical school, and I was planning on meeting with my Airsoft team after school. My stun gun was locked in the glove box, and the knife was in my EMT medical vest. I bought it at K-Mart and have it as part of my first responder kit for cutting seatbelts.

The pocketknife violates the school districts zero tolerance policy against bringing weapons onto school property  a class 5 felony.

For his crime, Wiser was carted off to jail for 13 days.

He is worried that a conviction will destroy his chance at a career in public service. Indeed, he has already been expelled from high school and technical school, and had his participation in the U.S. Armys Future Soldiers program terminated.

I wont even be able to be a janitor. Im 18 years old, and this is going to ruin my entire life, he said.

Prosecutors arent backing down, however.

We charge [people] with everything that we feel they are guilty of, and in this case, he is guilty of a felony, said Ashtabula County assistant prosecutor Harold Specht in a statement.

As a condition of his release from jail, he was given an ankle monitor and ordered to remove all weapons from his house. Most curiously of all, he was told to have no further contact with his grandfather, who is dying of cancer.

The one judge I went in front of told me to remove any firearms from my parents house and put them at my grandpas house, said Wiser. The next judge freaked out about me even knowing what a gun is and put a no contact order against me and my grandparents. My grandfather is dying right now, and I am not allowed within 500 feet of him.

The school district did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

The following quote from Wikipedia is an accurate description of what this man is being subjected to and what the mostly white middle class is being targeted with.

Samuel Francis argued that the problems of managerial state extend to issues of crime and justice. In 1992, he introduced the word anarcho-tyranny into the paleocon vocabulary. He once defined it this way: we refuse to control real criminals (that's the anarchy) so we control the innocent (that's the tyranny). Francis argued that this situation extends across the U.S. and Europe. While the government functions normally, violent crime remains a constant, creating a climate of fear (anarchy). He says that laws that are supposed to protect ordinary citizens against ordinary criminals routinely go unenforced, even though the state is perfectly capable of doing so. While this problem rages on, government elites concentrate their interests on law-abiding citizens. In fact, Middle America winds up on the receiving end of both anarchy and tyranny.

It’s hard to get past the rage over this brutally sadistic injustice, but I would point out that the legal mechanism to carry out this atrocity depends on presuming this young man was acting in a corporate capacity. FWIW.

Did you really think we want those laws observed?" said Dr. Ferris. "We want them to be broken. You'd better get it straight that it's not a bunch of boy scouts you're up against... We're after power and we mean it... There's no way to rule innocent men. The only power any government has is the power to crack down on criminals. Well, when there aren't enough criminals one makes them. One declares so many things to be a crime that it becomes impossible for men to live without breaking laws. Who wants a nation of law-abiding citizens? What's there in that for anyone? But just pass the kind of laws that can neither be observed nor enforced or objectively interpreted  and you create a nation of law-breakers  and then you cash in on guilt. Now that's the system, Mr. Reardon, that's the game, and once you understand it, you'll be much easier to deal with.

― Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged (1957)

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posted on 03/11/2014 11:48:17 AM PDT
by E. Pluribus Unum
(If Barack Hussein Obama entertains a thought that he does not verbalize, is it still a lie?)

This once great country is small, bitchy and mean. The Byzantine Empire fell because the citizens didn’t think it was worth fighting for. Well, i can barely imagine the scenario that would motivate me to again bear arms for this country. I would happily stand aside.

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posted on 03/11/2014 12:03:42 PM PDT
by DariusBane
(Liberty and Risk. Flip sides of the same coin. So how much risk will YOU accept? Vive Deco et Vives)

If I were his defense, I'd say Yes, it is a weapon. and then proceed to cite the Ohio state constitution:

§ 1.01 Inalienable Rights (1851)All men are, by nature, free and independent, and have certain inalienable rights, among which are those of enjoying and defending life and liberty, acquiring, possessing, and protecting property, and seeking and obtaining happiness and safety.

§ 1.04 Bearing arms; standing armies; military powers (1851)The people have the right to bear arms for their defense and security; but standing armies, in time of peace, are dangerous to liberty, and shall not be kept up; and the military shall be in strict subordination to the civil power.

Then I'd look into the laws against malicious prosecution and civil rights violations and go on the offensive. :D

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posted on 03/11/2014 12:06:07 PM PDT
by OneWingedShark
(Q: Why am I here? A: To do Justly, to love mercy, and to walk humbly with my God.)

"As a condition of his release from jail, he was given an ankle monitor and ordered to remove all weapons from his house. Most curiously of all, he was told to have no further contact with his grandfather, who is dying of cancer.

The one judge I went in front of told me to remove any firearms from my parents house and put them at my grandpas house, said Wiser. The next judge freaked out about me even knowing what a gun is and put a no contact order against me and my grandparents. My grandfather is dying right now, and I am not allowed within 500 feet of him.

What a travesty. Unthinkable. As Ayn Rand wrote (posted above).

This injustice cannot stand. What recourse does this responsible hard-working young man have?

Leftists HATE the idea of people that can defend themselves, and for several reasons.
The dependent sheeperals look at someone who can defend themselves as pointing out how shamefully dependent said sheeperals are.
The “ruling class” leftists hate the idea of someone defending themselves from thuggery - BECAUSE THEY INTEND TO USE THUGGERY on people.

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posted on 03/11/2014 12:21:20 PM PDT
by MrB
(The difference between a Humanist and a Satanist - the latter admits whom he's working for)

I carried a pocket knife just about every day of my school career (still carry one every day BTW). I wasn’t the only one either. Most boys did. There were plenty of fights in school, yet no one ever thought about pulling out a pocket knife to stab someone.

I may sound like an old fuddy duddy, but between this type of stuff and video games I am so glad I am not growing up today.

After so many of these ridiculous incidents WHY HAVENT ANY REPUBS PROPOSED LEGISLATION TO PREVENT THIS?

For the same reason they don't suggest repeal of the NFA or GCA, or seriously fight abortion, or seriously try repealing Obamacare, or seriously attack the debt — if they did any of that, they couldn't use that issue to scare up more votes.

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posted on 03/11/2014 1:07:02 PM PDT
by OneWingedShark
(Q: Why am I here? A: To do Justly, to love mercy, and to walk humbly with my God.)

Who know my Jr High School was training me to be a felon when the Mechanical Drawing class required a sharp pocket knife to trim wooden drafting pencils and a box of single edged razor blades to scrape India ink blobs from the drawing.

Then again, that teacher did pack a snub nose revolver on his hip.

And ruling pens were drafting instruments and not the school administrative offices.

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posted on 03/11/2014 1:33:07 PM PDT
by Covenantor
("Men are ruled...by liars who refuse them news, and by fools who cannot govern." Chesterton)

So, we have one story saying that he gave permission, and another saying that he did not.

He says, in comments at the one article, that his lawyer is doing a great job.

One of the comments says that the police were investigating him for taking pictures at crime scenes and at house fires. It could be that they were looking for something to hang him on. Of course, I do not know if the allegation in the comments is true, but we do have a first amendment right to take photographs in public places.

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posted on 03/11/2014 2:13:46 PM PDT
by marktwain
(The old media must die for the Republic to live. Long live the new media!)

“For the same reason they don’t suggest repeal of the NFA or GCA, or seriously fight abortion, or seriously try repealing Obamacare, or seriously attack the debt  if they did any of that, they couldn’t use that issue to scare up more votes.”

They could get more votes by taking stands against idiocy like this. I would rather fix the problem than btch about it.

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posted on 03/11/2014 3:03:49 PM PDT
by Brooklyn Attitude
(Things are only going to get worse.)

They could get more votes by taking stands against idiocy like this. I would rather fix the problem than btch about it.

Oh, I believe that! The problem though is that they don't. In fact, I would venture to say that they are the ultimate conservative (in the sense they wish to preserve the status quo) they'd be much happier just "stopping" everything and living in their current comfort than risking anything.

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posted on 03/11/2014 4:00:10 PM PDT
by OneWingedShark
(Q: Why am I here? A: To do Justly, to love mercy, and to walk humbly with my God.)

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